I have been very happy with DuckDuckGo, and it has helped me break free of routines that I did not feel safe with. Especially the small flame icon that would clear all history, cookies and cache from websites that are not “fireproofed” was great!

But today I had to do a quick example on Tinkercad (3D browser design tool) and it was so slow! I thought that my PC maybe was busy doing something (yeah its an older PC but not THAT old), but when I open the same page on my now parked Opera browser, everything went smoothly.

I am ok with using Opera, or any other browser for 3D work, as I don’t really do all that much of it, but I just feel gutted to find out that my now favorite browser sucks so bad at something, not to mention the Microsoft Edge processes when that is the last of any browser that I would choose to use

EDIT: I found out that this was due to hardware acceleration was off, on my DuckDuckGo browser. I had turned it off, because the fonts on websites looked blurry when it was on. The solution was to turn off antialising on the Nvidia control panel, and restart the PC. It is now working well!

  • therealjcdentonEnglish
    252·
    10 months ago

    Like most people said, use Firefox with the DDG extension or use Librewolf (just a heads up Librewolf by default deletes all history and cookie so disable that before signing in)

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      215·
      10 months ago

      What I like with DDG is that I can clear all cookies, cache, history etc except for the sites that i have “fireproofed”.

        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
          47·
          10 months ago

          Sorry - I don’t expect commenters to go through replies to other commenter’s so I thought it was the most reasonable thing to do

          • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            10 months ago

            I really don’t understand why you got downvoted, you’re having like 30 conversations at the same time, no problem to copy of of your answers to save some writing formulating time

            • Alk@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              10 months ago

              I think the point is other commenters saw the response and went on to suggest Firefox further. So the fact that they copy pasted a response that commenters were not only aware of but commenting to address, causes the copy paste to seem annoying and like the OP is purposefully ignoring all feedback and spamming the same narrow view. In a thread ostensibly implying they need help or advice, OP is ignoring most help and advice given because one one niche feature that can be replicated in other browsers.

              At least that’s how it comes off to me.

              • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works
                11·
                10 months ago

                For me it sounds more like: i like these features, what your option can offer, let’s discuss

                I mean, other commenters can read the post, they can see other options, but they all just flood “Firefox”, with no explanation or comparison, etc

                To a very lazy and uninformative message, there a very lazy and uninformative reply